This time, it may be necessary to fill some of you as to what you missed, because a) remembering keynote speeches by Barbara Jordan, Mario Cuomo and some guy named Obama, you tuned in for Governor Warner's address and fell instantly into a deep coma or b) like me, the prospect of missing a Red Sox game against NY in September was daunting, even though they are not our main problem this year.

Cablevision has graciously allowed me to put one picture in another, and so I was able to watch both events, which pleased me greatly.  If you could not, and chose sleep or the Sox you missed the line of the Convention so far, and a fine stemwinder

That's silver foot in his mouth stuff.  (If you don't know what I mean by that, you are in the wrong place.)

Yes, I am bewildered by Governor Warner.  I am sure he will make a decent Senator.  Virginia people are used to having a Senator Warner and we should not deny them the opportunity, but his speech about how much money he has made by bipartisanship (I kept dozing off, so I may not have heard all of this right) was just such a waste of air that I am shocked----shocked---he was allowed to do this.  Then again, the Governor of Arkansas gave much the same speech, and for a much longer time, in 1988, and we let him be the nominee at the next Convention.

His wife was excellent last night:  better than any one I ever heard President Clinton give.  

No, she did not say Senator Obama was a great guy or vouch for his character but that was not her job last night.  What she was required to do, she did and she did it well.

There were two passages that moved me more than anything else she said.  The first was this:

I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me, or were you in it for that young Marine and others like him?

Were you in it for that mom struggling with cancer while raising her kids?

Were you in it for that young boy and his mom surviving on the minimum wage?

Were you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?

That is the question---the only legitimate question---for those who voted for Senator Clinton, but now, since their candidate did not win (as discussed yesterday)are considering a vote for Senator McCain or staying at home.  They are good questions and, roughly, the ones posed here a few days ago.

Then there is this:

I want you to think about your children and grandchildren come Election Day. Think about the choices your parents and grandparents made that had such a big impact on your lives and on the life of our nation.

Yeh.  My grandparents gave me (or my parents) a life in this country and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to save the nation and then the world.

My parents gave me many, many things, but relevant to this conversation, one of them was John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who told us what our obligations are to our fellow men (and women), to our country and to the world.

I want to give my daughter, just starting out a life as an adult, a future of dreams and accomplishment and not one in a country drowning in racism, and stupidity.